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Susan Fraiman - Unbecoming Women, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

Unbecoming Women

British Women Writers and the Novel of Development

Av Susan Fraiman

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Unbecoming Women unpacks the ideological baggage of the Bildungsroman and turns to conduct books and novels of development by women for a new poetics of growing up. In subtle readings of works by Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot, Fraiman argues that a heroine's progress toward masterful selfhood is by no means assured. Focusing on counternarratives in which girls do not enter the world so much as flounder on its doorstep, Fraiman suggests that becoming a woman involves de-formation, disorientation, and the loss of authority. Written with grace and theoretical mastery, Unbecoming Women emphasises the dialectical as well as subversive aspects of a genre long considered homogeneous. The result is a compelling contribution to feminist genre criticism that, charting female destiny in Georgian and Victorian texts, also postmodernizes the novel of development.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1993-03-02
  • Vikt: 283 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 208
  • Förlag: Columbia University Press
  • ISBN: 9780231080019
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Susan Fraiman is professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her Columbia University Press publications include Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins (2017) and Cool Men and the Second Sex (2003).

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Susan Fraiman argues persuasively that an antiromantic, oppositional, even subversive tradition is intrinsic to canonical "women's fiction"--perhaps accounting for its continued vitality. She makes her case by careful, shrewd, highly readable readings of four well-loved, respected "classics" by Burney, Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. From the first chapter--about the conduct books for girls that nourished the roots of courtship novels--to the brilliant final contention that the ending of The Mill on the Floss challenges not only the genre of the Bildungsroman but the ideology of individualism, Fraiman is logical and pellucid, sometimes colloquial, often witty, and always accessible. Embedded in current political and critical concerns and debates, this book is never overwhelme or deflected by them. This is a subtle work of sophisticated literary criticism with a sound moral center--gratifying to read.

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